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Chris Skorlinksi gives steps to help debug Transactional Replication issues you may be having. Tools that can assist are SQL Profiler, Activity Monitor, Racer Tokens, and Performance Monitor.

Chris Skorlinski talks about using Tracer Tokens in Replication to locate performance issues and in which step the issue is occurring. Methods shown are from SSMS and T-SQL.

Late Nite TV does, it so why don't DBA's do it. Well they do. The folks over at PASS have come up with a great list of Top 10 for subjects such as Clustering, Profiler, Execution Plans, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Security,...you get the picture. It is thorough and will be expanding soon! Check it out and learn a little.

Chris K (blog) talks about when troubleshooting Transactional Replication performance he likes to break down the flow of data into 4 simultaneous conversations, examine performance of each conversation and this will help verify where the bottleneck investigation should begin.